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Baby 'accidentally decapitated inside mother's womb' during delivery

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...man-tribunal-ninewells-hospital-a8344696.html
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The mother, who was clutching two teddy bears in her arms, told the hearing it was the first time she was due to give birth.

''I had been for a scan the previous Friday and I was told my son was breech and the nurse told me if anything had happened to my son it was going to be a c-section,” she added.

''But when I was taken to the labour suite nobody told me what was happening. A lot of people were talking they kept saying the baby needed to come out but nobody looked at me in the eye and told me what was going to happen.

They were checking for the baby’s heartbeat and it had plummeted and that’s when I was told it was going to come out.

'''I remember them saying I was 2-3cm dilated and I was told to push. Nobody said I was not having a c-section and doing something else instead. Whilst this was going on I was in pain.

''The only pain relief I was given was a spray on my tongue. I was told it was meant to loosen my cervix but I was not given gas and air - I was in pain. I had the doctors putting their hands inside me and I had them pushing on my stomach and then pulling me down.

''I tried to get off the bed but they pulled me back three times and just said they had to get the baby out. They twice tried to cut my cervix and nobody told me they were going to do it. There was no anaesthetic. I said to them ‘it doesn’t feel right, stop it, what’s going on, I don’t want to do it’ but nobody responded to me in any way.

''Afterwards I was in a cubicle with a curtain around me and the sister came over to me and told me my son had passed away. I didn’t know the details but Dr Laxman came to see me and the baby’s father was there. Dr Laxman sat on the side of my bed and she said how sorry she was for what happened but I didn’t know the full extent of what happened at that point.

''I just said ‘it’s alright, these things happen, I forgive you.’ She went away but I started screaming when I found out the full extent - I was just crying. I was upset because of the severity of his injury. “I would never use the word stillborn, he was not stillborn he was decapitated. I was pregnant, my first pregnancy I wasn’t sure what was going on and I was told it was the safest place possible. Nobody explained the plan or risks associated. It was like disorganised chaos and I was scared.''

Midwife Mona Chard said: ''I was aware she had palpable tightening and some bleeding and she was moved to the labour suite. There was a lot of discussion but I’m not sure who was talking to who. I can’t remember Dr Laxman having a conversation with a patient. I was trying to reassure the patient and comfort her. I remember looking round and people were shocked.

''The doctor came over to me and said Dr Laxman had decided there wasn’t going to be a C section and I saw her pull the baby’s feet and cord and she told the patient to push. That is something you cannot forget and Patient A was very distressed.''

The hearing was told the woman was given cocodamol before she was examined and Dr Laxman decided to carry out the delivery naturally.

“They tried to coerce the birth through traction as the baby was coming feet first followed by the lower abdomen, upper abdomen and head,” lawyer for the General Medical Council Charles Garside QC said.

''However, there was an obstruction during the birth which proved to be fatal. Dr Laxman allegedly delivered the legs, torso and arms successfully but whilst trying to deliver the head, it got stuck in the cervix.

''The attempt to manipulate the baby’s head to come out of the cervix failed because the cervix has clamped onto the baby’s head and despite effort made to assist, these efforts failed. Dr Laxman made three attempts to cut the cervix with scissors but Baby B’s head was separated from his body and his head was stuck inside Patient A’s body.

''The doctors had to arrange for the head to be removed. A Caesarean was then carried out - not by Dr Laxman who had become overcome by events - but by Dr C and Dr D, and his head was removed in that way.

“As a matter of compassion the head was reattached so the appearance of the baby was not too extreme. The baby was shown to his mother so she had the consolation of seeing him.''
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“She failed to perform a Caesarean without general anaesthetic at a time when speed was needed. They should have carried out a category 1 Caesarean section. The baby had a heartbeat, it was slow, but it was not dead. The choice was taken by Dr Laxman to try a vaginal delivery and this was the wrong choice. They should never use a vaginal delivery in that situation.

“New babies are fragile, but this tiny baby was more fragile, and being pulled or twisted could do a lot more damage.''

Dr Laxman, who was working at the hospital with a team of other doctors, is now faced with being struck off. She denies contributing to the death of her baby.
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Satanica said:
''However, there was an obstruction during the birth which proved to be fatal. Dr Laxman allegedly delivered the legs, torso and arms successfully but whilst trying to deliver the head, it got stuck in the cervix.

''The attempt to manipulate the baby’s head to come out of the cervix failed because the cervix has clamped onto the baby’s head and despite effort made to assist, these efforts failed. Dr Laxman made three attempts to cut the cervix with scissors but Baby B’s head was separated from his body and his head was stuck inside Patient A’s body.

''The doctors had to arrange for the head to be removed. A Caesarean was then carried out - not by Dr Laxman who had become overcome by events - but by Dr C and Dr D, and his head was removed in that way.

“As a matter of compassion the head was reattached so the appearance of the baby was not too extreme. The baby was shown to his mother so she had the consolation of seeing him.''
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“She failed to perform a Caesarean without general anaesthetic at a time when speed was needed. They should have carried out a category 1 Caesarean section. The baby had a heartbeat, it was slow, but it was not dead. The choice was taken by Dr Laxman to try a vaginal delivery and this was the wrong choice. They should never use a vaginal delivery in that situation.
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Thats every mothers worst nightmare right there :eek:

That being said...they really should teach mom to be's that these kinds of things can happen, even with modern medicine. Whether or not the doctor is liable isnt for me to say, but there is a point in natural delivery that c-section is no longer an option. Once that baby is fully engaged into the birth canal they have to let it come out the way it should. You cant pull a mostly born baby back out through the stomach. It runs the same risks of parts being yanked off.

Something similar happened with my second baby. His heart rate started to plummet and my uterus went into whats known as over active uterus. One long unending contraction where it crushes the baby. In my case they rushed me by ambulance to another city an hour away while using their hands to hold the baby in so it couldn't drop into the birthing canal fully. As a bonus I got an internal heart monitor to go with my fisting.
 
Sudonim said:
Thats every mothers worst nightmare right there :eek:

That being said...they really should teach mom to be's that these kinds of things can happen, even with modern medicine. Whether or not the doctor is liable isnt for me to say, but there is a point in natural delivery that c-section is no longer an option. Once that baby is fully engaged into the birth canal they have to let it come out the way it should. You cant pull a mostly born baby back out through the stomach. It runs the same risks of parts being yanked off.

Something similar happened with my second baby. His heart rate started to plummet and my uterus went into whats known as over active uterus. One long unending contraction where it crushes the baby. In my case they rushed me by ambulance to another city an hour away while using their hands to hold the baby in so it couldn't drop into the birthing canal fully. As a bonus I got an internal heart monitor to go with my fisting.
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Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
WTF did I just read?

I think this has to be hands down the most horrific story I have ever read.
Then to read the doc put the baby head back on the body so it would not be too shocking.
Screw that.

The doc is a butcher, monster, freakishly incompetent tit!
End her career with some earthshaking malpractice.
100 million awarded...bam!
 
motherfuckers should have given her a c section as soon as they realized it was breached, no excuse. they deserve to be sued to hell and back as well as lose any licenses they ever had and on the streets begging for alms at the very least as soon as they knew it was breech if they did not have the facility to handle a c section she should have been rushed where there was one. A baby doesn't breech immediately or after it is in the canal
 
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As someone who has long understood just how horrifying and nightmarish the act of childbirth is, even when things go right, this is nto shocking to me. Blows my mind how there's people who still dont know/accept what a downright brutal thing this is.

This woman had one tight poon it sounded lik though. Damn.
 
Now we know why malpractice insurance on OB Drs is outrageous. Its so bad a lot of people don't wanna become OBs.
 
given mother's age and the position of the baby, I wonder why they didn't choose C-section as option A...
 
In 1979 I had a C-section with my first. My pelvis would not open wide enough to let a big headed baby thru. The still let me labor for about 10 hours, pushing until I was exhausted, and until they kept losing his heart beat. THEN they took me to surgery. With the second, 1984, different doctor wanted to do a VBAC but I said absolutely not. I still went thru labor with him too. I'm glad the doctors I had knew when it was time to do something different.
 
Sejanus said:
Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
WTF did I just read?

I think this has to be hands down the most horrific story I have ever read.
Then to read the doc put the baby head back on the body so it would not be too shocking.
Screw that.

The doc is a butcher, monster, freakishly incompetent tit!
End her career with some earthshaking malpractice.
100 million awarded...bam!
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Sounds like she made the wrong decision about the vaginal birth & could be liable, however there sometimes comes a point where doctors have to choose between the baby’s life and the mother’s. The alternative is letting both die.

Before modern medicine I read somewhere that the death rate of pregnant women was 1 in 3. We still have an unacceptably high rate of perinatal maternal mortality in this country.
 
... caused the infant’s legs, arms and torso to become detached leaving the head still in his mother’s womb ...
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:oops: ...... :vomit:

I've seen some seriously fucked up shit, but damn .... I would not have been surprised if the doctor would have projectile vomited all over the patient after realizing what just happen.
 
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